Senior Software Engineer

Job Description  At PayPal (NASDAQ: PYPL), we believe that every person has the right to participate fully in the global economy. Our mission is to democratize financial services to ensure that everyone, regardless of background or economic standing, has access to affordable, convenient, and secure products and services to take control of their financial lives.  Job Description Summary:  As a Software Engineer in PayPal’s Alternate Payments method (APM) team, you will help design and build a robust product to support PayPal’s existing APM products, as well as drive innovation in alternate payments platform. You will leverage your expertise and experience to design and build systems that further PayPal’s goal of bringing best in class customer experience to provides global payment acceptance solutions to all merchant/partner segments at PayPal.

Senior Software Engineer , Alternate Payments Method 

Location: Bangalore, India 

Job Description 

At PayPal (NASDAQ: PYPL), we believe that every person has the right to participate fully in the global economy. Our mission is to democratize financial services to ensure that everyone, regardless of background or economic standing, has access to affordable, convenient, and secure products and services to take control of their financial lives. 

Job Description Summary: 

As a Software Engineer in PayPal’s Alternate Payments method (APM) team, you will help design and build a robust product to support PayPal’s existing APM products, as well as drive innovation in alternate payments platform. You will leverage your expertise and experience to design and build systems that further PayPal’s goal of bringing best in class customer experience to provides global payment acceptance solutions to all merchant/partner segments at PayPal. 

Meet our Team: 
 

APM is a team which enables Payments that are not run through a credit or debit card schemes. With APM we increase PayPal TPV (~1 – 2 % Annually) and provide a competitive advantage by enabling merchants to integrate with a single payment provider, PayPal. The charter is to enable integrations to local payment options and plugin these integrations into PayPal merchant facing and consumer facing products. Our goal is to increase the PayPal share of checkout by letting customers have a choice to use their favorite local payment options to do e-commerce and online payments. We provide various integration methods for alternative payments which are used by Braintree SDK. 

With Smart Payment Buttons (Guest buttons), Unbranded API’s we enable 21 APMs (9 General Availability, 11 limited releases, 1 digital wallet) Alternative Payment Methods globally. 

APM Team owns the full stack, i.e., this team owns the experience, payment processing (Local Payment Methods, Bank) which includes Realtime and settlement and operations this adds the complexity of understanding the system e2e rather domains.

Your way to impact: 

In this role, you will help design and build web Applications for PayPal's APM platform to support additional regional payment methods and subsequent capabilities for PayPal merchants. As a member of the APM team, you’ll collaborate with cross functional teams; architects, product owners, and other engineers to create innovative & scalable solutions serving millions of customers. You will play a valuable role in development from concept to launch of payments newest technologies. 

Your day to day: 

primary responsibilities include: 

product Development:

• Your primary responsibilities include:
• Design, develop and test high throughput applications and backend systems.
• Develop efficient, elegant, clean code with no unnecessary complication or abstraction.
• Lead code review sessions
• Passionate about low latency systems
• Ability to deal with high traffic/volume data.
• Continuously look for opportunities for performance tuning.
• Collaborate with other engineers, architects, product, and program management teams.

Business Operation & production L1/L2 Support:

• Ability to triage production issues and drive RCA for incidents, alerts etc.
• Need to monitor the production system and traffic through dashboards, alerts etc.
• Passionate about solving problems, document the process and looking for enhancements to improve the operation excellence.
• Handling the day-2-day business operation request and respond within the SLA.

What do you need to bring:

Design skills:

• Demonstrated experience with large-scale software architecture and development, and/or high-volume websites and web services.
• Solid understanding of web-scale architectural considerations such as security, performance, scalability, reliability etc.
• Proven experience in both real-time online transaction processing systems as well as non-real time asynchronous processing.

Technical Hands-on Skills:

• 6+ years of experience in software development.
• Strong Object-oriented programming skills and expertise in one of Java/J2EE.
• Experience with REST API’s, Web Services, Unit Testing and build tools.
• Strong working experience and exposure node.js.
• Working experience with databases such as MSSQL/ Oracle etc.
• Exposure and Understanding of NoSQL databases and microservices is a plus.
• Proven track record in delivering highly available, scalable systems on time
• Conversant in design patterns
• Good understanding of web services and related standards like REST/JSON
• Experience in Spring framework and other open-source frameworks
• Experience in Unix based development environment
• Experience in both development and quality assurance activities
• Experience in QA methodologies, test automation and automation frameworks
• Experience in driving Integration testing, UAT with external vendors
• Experience in JUnit, Selenium is a plus
• Experience working in payments or financial services industry is a plus.
• Exposure to Agile Methodologies

**We know the confidence gap and imposter syndrome can get in the way of meeting spectacular candidates. Please don't hesitate to apply. 

Additional Job Description: 

Subsidiary: 

PayPal 

Travel Percent: 

0 

Our Benefits: 

At PayPal, we’re committed to building an equitable and inclusive global economy. And we can’t do this without our most important asset—you. That’s why we offer benefits to help you thrive in every stage of life. We champion your financial, physical, and mental health by offering valuable benefits and resources to help you care for the whole of you. We have great benefits including a flexible work environment, employee shares options, health, and life insurance and more. To learn more about our benefits please visit https://www.paypalbenefits.com 

Who We Are: 
Click Here to learn more about our culture and community. 
 

PayPal has remained at the forefront of the digital payment revolution for more than 20 years. By leveraging technology to make financial services and commerce more convenient, affordable, and secure, the PayPal platform is empowering more than 400 million consumers and merchants in more than 200 markets to join and thrive in the global economy.

For more information, visit paypal.com. 

PayPal provides equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, PayPal will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities. If you are unable to apply because of incompatible assistive technology or a disability, please contact us at paypalglobaltalentacquisition@paypal.com. 

As part of PayPal’s commitment to employees’ health and safety, we have established in-office Covid-19 protocols and requirements, based on expert guidance. Depending on location, this might include a Covid-19 vaccination requirement for any employee whose role requires them to work onsite. Employees may request reasonable accommodation based on a medical condition or religious belief that prevents them from being vaccinated. 

Time Type: 

Full time 

Qualifications:

• BSCS plus 8+ years / MSCS plus 6+ years of experience in software design, development, and architecture